linux-kernel - [RFC][PATCH 12/13] x86/debug: Support negative polarity DR6 bits

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Date:   Wed, 02 Sep 2020 15:26:01 +0200
From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:     x86@...nel.org
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Kyle Huey <me@...ehuey.com>,
        Alexandre Chartre <alexandre.chartre@...cle.com>,
        Robert O'Callahan <rocallahan@...il.com>,
        "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>,
        Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@...nel.org>,
        Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@...el.com>,
        Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>,
        Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Joel Fernandes <joel@...lfernandes.org>,
        Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com>,
        Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>,
        Brian Gerst <brgerst@...il.com>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>,
        Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@...aro.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Andrew Cooper <Andrew.Cooper3@...rix.com>
Subject: [RFC][PATCH 12/13] x86/debug: Support negative polarity DR6 bits

DR6 has a whole bunch of bits that have negative polarity; they were
architecturally reserved and defined to be 1 and are now getting used.
Since they're 1 by default, 0 becomes the signal value.

Handle this by xor'ing the read DR6 value by the reserved mask, this
will flip them around such that 1 is the signal value (positive
polarity).

Current Linux doesn't yet support any of these bits, but there's two
defined:

 - DR6[11] Bus Lock Debug Exception		(ISEr39)
 - DR6[16] Restricted Transactional Memory	(SDM)

Update ptrace_{set,get}_debugreg() to provide/consume the value in
architectural polarity. Although afaict ptrace_set_debugreg(6) is
pointless, the value is not consumed anywhere.

Change hw_breakpoint_restore() to alway write the DR6_RESERVED value
to DR6, again, no consumer for that write.

Suggested-by: Andrew Cooper <Andrew.Cooper3@...rix.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@...radead.org>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c |    2 +-
 arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c        |    4 ++--
 arch/x86/kernel/traps.c         |    5 ++---
 3 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/x86/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c
@@ -500,7 +500,7 @@ void hw_breakpoint_restore(void)
 	set_debugreg(__this_cpu_read(cpu_debugreg[1]), 1);
 	set_debugreg(__this_cpu_read(cpu_debugreg[2]), 2);
 	set_debugreg(__this_cpu_read(cpu_debugreg[3]), 3);
-	set_debugreg(current->thread.debugreg6, 6);
+	set_debugreg(DR6_RESERVED, 6);
 	set_debugreg(__this_cpu_read(cpu_dr7), 7);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(hw_breakpoint_restore);
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c
@@ -601,7 +601,7 @@ static unsigned long ptrace_get_debugreg
 		if (bp)
 			val = bp->hw.info.address;
 	} else if (n == 6) {
-		val = thread->debugreg6;
+		val = thread->debugreg6 ^ DR6_RESERVED; /* Flip back to arch polarity */
 	} else if (n == 7) {
 		val = thread->ptrace_dr7;
 	}
@@ -657,7 +657,7 @@ static int ptrace_set_debugreg(struct ta
 	if (n < HBP_NUM) {
 		rc = ptrace_set_breakpoint_addr(tsk, n, val);
 	} else if (n == 6) {
-		thread->debugreg6 = val;
+		thread->debugreg6 = val ^ DR6_RESERVED; /* Flip to positive polarity */
 		rc = 0;
 	} else if (n == 7) {
 		rc = ptrace_write_dr7(tsk, val);
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/traps.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/traps.c
@@ -745,9 +745,8 @@ static __always_inline unsigned long deb
 	 * Keep it simple: clear DR6 immediately.
 	 */
 	get_debugreg(dr6, 6);
-	set_debugreg(0, 6);
-	/* Filter out all the reserved bits which are preset to 1 */
-	dr6 &= ~DR6_RESERVED;
+	set_debugreg(DR6_RESERVED, 6);
+	dr6 ^= DR6_RESERVED; /* Flip to positive polarity */
 
 	/*
 	 * The SDM says "The processor clears the BTF flag when it